Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

Sharing love and light while in Israel.

My eyes adored ya Though I never laid a hand on you My eyes adored ya Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya So close, so close and yet so far

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.